St. Therese of the Child Jesus
“I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifices to all ecstacies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.” –St. Therese of the Child Jesus
Happy Feast of St. Therese! Although it is Sunday and we give honor to our Lord Jesus Christ, we still are celebrating his great sister and God’s wonderful creation of love in the ‘little way.’
Being the feast of St. Therese, it is also our little Therese’s name day. Today’s 9:30 Mass was offered for her. I hope we will see the fruits of it very soon. 
I made a special “French” breakfast…Crepes filled with a cheese blend (cheese blitzes) and topped with a warm berry sauce. Therese also chose her special treat of the day…homemade pumpkin pie. We bought a pumpkin the other day and made it from scratch. Here’s a yummy recipe:
So Easy Pumpkin Pie
Ingredients:
- 1 1/3 cup smooth pumpkin from a cooking pumpkin
- 1 can sweet condensed milk
- 1 egg
- 1 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp ginger
- 1/4 tsp cloves
- 1 cup hot water** (I forgot to put this in and the pie still came out great)
- 1- 9″ pie shell
Cut pumpkin in half without stem. Scoop out seeds (and you can save to make roasted pumpkin seeds) and string. Place cut down on foil lined baking sheets. Cover with foil. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 1/2 hours. Cool. Scoop out flesh and mash.
For pie beat together 1 1/3 cup smooth pumpkin with all the other ingredients. Pour in 9 inch pie shell. Bake at 375 degrees for 55-65 minutes. **If you forget the hot water, as I did, bake the pie for about 10 minutes less. Like I said, it still came out great!
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
After removing as much pulp as possible from the pumpkin seeds, place in colander and rinse thoroughly. When the seeds are clean, drain them and place between two paper towels to dry.
In a large skillet saute 2 cups pumpkin seeds with 2 tablespoons butter or 1 1/2 tablespoons safflower oil and 1 teaspoon salt (or season salt). Stir 3 minutes until seed are well coated with butter. Spread evenly on a cookie sheet and bake for 30 mintues on 250 degrees.